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Fall Color Hikes
1. by Lacy Turner
I
moved here, 26 years ago, with a
built in love of fall color, but I had
never in my life seen the fall oranges
and reds of wild huckleberry. These
low to the ground shades are the ones that
thrill me now, and my friend Jan and I like
to take our “huckleberry trip” to Trout Lake
the first weekend of October. We hike Little
Huckleberry on Friday, spend Saturday in
Indian Heaven, and scramble up to the true
summit of Sleeping Beauty on Sunday.
Little Huckleberry Mountain is a mighty
short hike (5.4 miles roundtrip, 1800 feet
elevation gain) for such a big payoff. Goose
Lake is front and center in an expansive
view of the southern end of Gifford Pinchot
National Forest, with Mounts St. Helens,
Adams and Hood holding up the sky. Only
one block of foundation remains of the
former fire lookout perched at 4,781 feet.
In early October the summit hill is solid
red and the mid-afternoon sun shines
through the huckleberry leaves so they
look like stained glass. Little Huckleberry
is accessed out of Willard, Washington on
Forest Road 66; we get back on 66 to Forest
Road 60 to Highway 141 to Trout Lake.
This particular trip is a leisurely affair
wherein Jan and I settle into the Trout
Lake Valley Inn with a pile of books
and notebooks (we write), and try to fit
huckleberries into every meal. To this end
we make liberal use of Heavenly Grounds
and the Café, both behind Andy’s Valley
Service Station, for espresso, burgers,
huckleberry pie, huckleberry shakes,
huckleberry pastries, huckleberry jams and
syrups. Camouflage clothing is de rigueur
in Trout Lake in the fall, but the only
time I even thought I spotted a hunter in
Indian Heaven—a loud orange jacket was
heading our way on the first day of hunting
season—it turned out to be Richard Getgen
leading a group of Mazamas!
Indian Heaven Wilderness is 20,782
acres on a high forested plateau (4,500 to
5,500 feet) scattered with more than 150
lakes and ponds and an abundance of
open meadows. Lava once flowed from
the volcanic knobs that dot the high
spine (Lemei Rock, at 5,925 feet, is the
highest point) so the area has the acidic,
volcanic soil that wild huckleberry loves.
The berries brought Native Americans to
“Sahalee Tyee” (the chief’s high, heavenly
ground) 10,000 years ago; well into the
1920s, the Klickitat and Yakima peoples
came every August to harvest berries, hunt,
fish and race horses. Most of the Sawtooth
Berry Field in the north is set aside for the
use of Native peoples.
I love the palette of coral to orange
around the shallower lakes so we usually
spend Saturday hiking the 10-mile loop
from the Cultus Creek Campground:
south past Cultus and Lemei Lakes to
Junction Lake, then north up the PCT
with a stop at Bear Lake. The trail back
to the campground steps down through
yellow mountain ash. Other best loved
routes include the Thomas Lake Trail
through meadows of huckleberry and
heather to Blue Lake (a deep azure blue),
and East Crater Trail, the easiest trek to
huckleberry-rimmed Junction Lake. (I fear
that Junction and other pond-like lakes
may be nonexistent by fall of this drought
year.)
On Sunday morning we pack up and
head to the Sleeping Beauty Trailhead, on
10 miles of gravel curves (Forest Roads
88 and 8810) that always feel like 20,
especially for such a short hike: 3.2 miles
round trip, 1,410 feet elevation gain. Once
it comes out of the forest the trail offers
plenty of huckleberry, but we’re on Sleeping
Glitter, Glow, Shimmer, and Quake:
Indian Heaven and
Other Fall Color Hikes
Photo: Hoyt Arboretum
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Beauty for the jaw-dropping close-up view
of Mt. Adams. The final half-mile to the
summit is a cool series of switchbacks
between rock cliffs, topped with 100 feet of
scrambling to the highest point.
For Mazamas hardwired to squeeze as
much hiking into three days as humanly
possible: substitute Big Huckleberry (11.8
miles, 2,935 feet elevation gain) for Little
Huckleberry, and on Sunday, drive to Lyle,
Washington for brilliant fall foliage on the
31-mile Klickitat River Trail.
OTHER FALL FAVORITES
The high sections of the Eagle Creek
Trail, in the Columbia River Gorge, have a
special fall magic. I love being up on the
basalt ledges with yellow leaves floating
down all around me. Horsetail Falls to
Triple Falls is a great loop for autumn-
turning big leaf maple.
For amazing color without the crowds,
head to tiny Trapper Creek Wilderness
(6,050 acres) north of Carson, Washington.
Big leaf maple dominates the canvas on
lower routes with huge yellow-gold leaves
underfoot and above. The Mazamas put
years of work into these trails but I have
most often hiked them in solitude. Twice,
near the top of Observation Point, I have
heard bugling from Trapper Creek’s herd of
Roosevelt Elk.
Blazing vine maple lines the trail up
Silver Star Mountain and the dominant late
wildflower, explorer’s gentian, might have
one last bloom through September. The
most direct route to the summit is only
6½ miles roundtrip; from the top you can
pick out the crest of the Cascades running
through Indian Heaven.
Salmon Butte Trail, near Welches in
the Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness, is
lined with vine maple, and huckleberry
in colors burgundy to crimson. It’s a bit
of a slog in its new 12-mile incarnation,
but the summit offers grand views of the
Salmon River Basin. On the other side of
Highway 26, the hike from Vista Ridge Trail
to Wy’East Basin can seem like a bit much
driving for six miles of hiking, but visitors
are few and far between on the north
slopes of Mt. Hood in the fall and the crisp
air makes the views go on forever.
Opal Creek, in the Willamette National
Forest east of Salem, is well worth four
hours in the car. It is the ultimate “walk in
the woods,” for more big, old trees than you
will see anywhere else in Oregon. Giant firs
and cedars are skirted with low fall color;
luminous maples and creeks are scattered
throughout.
MUCH FURTHER AFIELD
If aspen trees shake sweet music out
of their leaves then I say the tinkling of
the gold leaves is even sweeter. The most
beautiful fall display of aspen I have ever
seen was on the Kaibab Plateau heading
to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon;
the second best was the aspen grove at
Fish Creek on Steens Mountain. Late
September, both sides of Steens Mountain
offer gorgeous aspen displays: Fish Creek
and Big Indian Gorge on the west, lower
Wildhorse Canyon on the east.
Two hikes much further afield in
Washington are on the top of my fall wish
list. Four years ago, I hiked up Granite
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Larch fall color. Photo: Hoyt Arboretum
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3. by Andrew
Bodien, Education
Committee Chair
The Education Committee
is looking for new members.
Specifically we’re looking for
professional educators to help
the committee support the
Mazama Education Program.
Helpful skill sets for members
of the Education Committee
include: form development,
adult learning, curriculum
development, class development,
online form experience, and
budget experience.
Education is a central tenant
of the mission of Mazamas and
is part of our legacy. Every year
hundreds of adults and children,
no matter what their experience
level, learn how to safely recreate in the
mountains every year. We would like to
expand those programs, but before we do
so we need to solidify our base. That is
why I am writing to you. Here are some
of the positions that we need to fill on the
committee:
▶▶ Evaluations: The Education
Committee collects feedback from
students on our programs. We need
an educator with database and
spreadsheet skills to organize and
disseminate the results.
▶▶ Risk Management: We need a liaison
to attend Mazama Risk Management
Committee meetings to offer an
educational perspective. Ideally this
person has at least an intermediate
level of climbing experience.
▶▶ Scope and Sequence: The Education
Committee is in the process of
developing the Scope and Sequence of
its climbing schools. This scope and
sequence document is meant to be a
living, evolving work that documents
what skills are taught and in what
classes. We need a committee member
to help complete this process. Ideally
this committee member would have
intermediate or advanced climbing
experience in both rock and snow/ice.
▶▶ Skill-Builders: We are looking for
an educator to coordinate our Skill-
Builder program. This individual
would have experience with Project
Management. They, along with the
Mazama Staff, would help support the
people who are leading the various
Skill-Builders that the Mazamas offer.
If you have an educational background
and any of these positions look like a
good fit for you, please reach out to me at
education@mazamas.org.
Mountain near the end of August and
ran into a slew of Seattle-ites picking
huckleberries. I loved the gold/green
palette of late summer but just knew that
the fall color would blaze. And according
to the Washington Trails Association
website, early fall marks “the eruption of
a psychedelic blast of color” on Granite
Mountain (near Snoqualmie Pass). The
Maple Pass Loop is my favorite hike in the
eastern half of North Cascades National
Park. I have yet to see alpine larch in
the fall and I can’t wait to get back to
Maple Pass and see those dazzling yellow
larches bursting up through the blazing
undergrowth.
BACK IN PORTLAND
I will miss the turning maples at the
Portland Japanese Garden (closed from
September through March 2016) but I can
still check out the Japanese Larch on the
Redwood Trail at Hoyt Arboretum, along
with 8,000 or so other trees and plants
from around the world. Saturday guided
tours will continue through October, with
additional fall color walks. Maple Trail is
the obvious choice but I love wandering
into a surprise of color on a trail “less
traveled by.” Mr. Frost was right: it really
does make all the difference.
Navigation practice
during a BCEP conditioning
hike. Photo: Tamara Ross.
Education Committee
Seeks New Members
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